August 15 - Jacques Ibert (The Musical Birthday Series)

Jacques Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of ingratiating charm and wit.

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Jacques Ibert

Was well aware

He had a flair

For concert fare

As light as air.

The Germans there

In their parterre,

More doctrinaire,

Declared, “Mein Herr

We cannot bear 

This French affair!”

But Jacques Ibert

With savoir faire

Was debonnaire,

And didn’t care,

Or tear his hair,

Or curse, or swear

In deep despair,

But DID declare 

“Mes chers frères...

C’est la guerre”

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